Notify these organizations when a death occurs…

1. Social Security Administration by calling 1-800-772-1213. Your funeral home will make the initial contact with SSA. When the death certificate is entered, the SSN has to pass. A surviving spouse or dependent child is entitled to a $255 death benefit.
2. Banks. Accounts may be held jointly but you still need to notify each institution and bring a certified death certificate.
3. The deceased’s employer
4. The Department of Motor Vehicles
5. Issuer’s of credit cards or charge accounts
6. Life Insurance Companies. You will need to request a claim form and provide a death certificate (with cause of death). Some funeral home’s may take an assignment on the policy and do this on your behalf.
7. Title holders to mortgages. Remember if jointly held you’re still responsible for payments.
8. Veteran’s Administration. Each honorably discharged veteran is entitled to a flag, headstone and free burial in a national cemetery. The Veteran’s spouse and dependent children are allowed to be interred in the national cemetery also. Please provide your funeral home with form DD-214. Burial benefits may apply is the deceased veteran was in receipt of a VA pension; died in a VA hospital; or was in receipt of compensation for a service connected disability.